Clothes-pin.



J. G. STRADER.

CLOTHES PIN.

APPLICATION FILED DEC. 5. 1911.

1,301,191. Patented A r/22,1919.

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JuLnuS G (EWRHDEK- V JULIUS e. STRADER, or PETERSBURG, VIRGINIA, Assrenon, BY MESNE ASSIGNMENTS,

To I. II. PRITCHETT, on PETERSBURG, VIRGINIA.

CLOTHES-PIN.

Specification of Letters Patent. Patented Apr. 22, 1919.

Application filed December 5, 1917. Serial No. 205,579.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JuLIUs G. 'STRADER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Petersburg, in the county of Dinwiddie and State of Virginia, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Clothes- Pins, of which the following is a specification, reference'being had to the accompanying drawings. I

This invention relates to certaln Improvements in clothes pins and has relation more particularly to a device of this general character produced from a single length of material, and it is an object of the invention to provide a novel and improved clothes pin which may be operated with convenience and facility and which possesses a maximum of efficiency in clamping clothes or other articles upon a line.

The invention consists in the details of construction and in the combination and arrangement of the several parts of my improved clothes pin whereby certain important advantages are attained and th device rendered simpler, less expensive and otherwise more convenient and advantageous for use, as will be hereinafter more fully set forth.

The novel features of my invention will hereinafter be definitely claimed.

In order that my invention may be the better understood I will now proceed to describe the same with reference to the accompanying drawings wherein:

Figure 1 is a view in side elevation of a clothes pin constructed in accordance with an embodiment of my invention, a coacting line being indicated in section.

Fig. 2 is a front elevational view of my improved clothes pin as herein disclosed, the coacting line being shown in fragment;

Fig. 3 is a View in elevation of the side of my improved clothes pin opposite to that shown in Fig. 1; and

Fig. 4: is a sectional view taken substantially on the line 44: of Fig. 1.

As herein embodied my improved clothes pin is produced from a single length of wire of requisite gage and is bent intermediate its length to form a coil 1. One of the outer convolutiong of the coil- 1 is continued by the elongated straight portion 2 terminating in the substantially right angular extension 3 underlying the coil 1. The extension 3 is returned upon itself as at 4 and is continued juring the clothing or other articles is re duced to a minimum.

The opposite end convolution of the coil 1 i is provided with an extension 7 substantially at right angles to the portions 2 and 5 and is of a length to extend between said portions. The extension 7 is continued by the obliquely disposed substantially straight portion 8 which is inclined in a direction toward the outer extremities of the portions 2 and 5 and extended between said outer extremities. The outer extremity of the portion 8 is curved, at 9, in a direction away from the portions 2 and 5.

The portion 5 is free throughout its length but possesses suflicient inherent tension to assure the proper clamping or gripping action of the portion 8 whlch is interposed between and coacts with the portion 5 and the portion 2. By having the portion 5 free the pin can be applied with greater facility as it is only necessary for the portion 2 at the coil to flex and the member 8 to flex.

In applying my improved pin, the line L will readily pass between the outwardly curved portion 9 and the outer extremities of the portions 2 and 5. This results in an outward movement of the portion 8 which permits the line together with the article supported, thereby to seat between the outer end portion of the extension 7 and the inner extremities of the portions 2 and 5.

It is believed to be obvious that the extension 3 together with its portion 4 and the curved portion 9 afford jaws to facilitate the application of my pin upon the line L. The effectiveness of my improved pin is further facilitated by having the portion 5 terminat ing beyond the extension 7 the precise arrangement and formation of length of spring wire, the intermediate portion of its length being formed into a spring 0011, one end portlon of the wlre beyond said (5011 and at one side thereof being extended and bent upon itself to form a loop, said loop being laterally bent and positioned in an alinement under the coil, the sides of the loop between the coil and the lateral bent portion being in parallelism, one of said sides being free and unattached throughout its length, whereby it may yield when forcing a wire clothes line between the loop and a spring tongue, and also when forcing a laterally bent loop, the other end part beyond the coil constituting a tongue being bent at an acute angle to the coil and in diagonal relation to and between the sides of the loop, thereby constructing a clothes line receiving space adjacent the coil, the lower part of the tongue and the lower parts of the sides of said loop being curved outwardly, whereby a wire clothes line may cam the tongue and the loop apart, so that the clothes line may engage in the receiving space.

In testimony whereof I hereunto affix my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

I JULIUS Gr. STRADER.

Witnesses:

W. O. REAMEs, DAYID L. GARY.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five" cents each, by addressing the Gommissionei' of Patents,

Washington, D. G. 

